Into the Foundry
General Summary
June 25-27 - Sam, Siobhan, and Ladybird
See Strange Brews & Chaotic Canyons for the previous entry. After preparing for the underground expedition, the party headed down into the tunnel they'd found at the heart of the chaotic canyons of the Warrens. The tunnel wound back and forth, going for at least five miles, perhaps more. Eventually it ended, narrowing to a crack in what looked like a metal wall. Closer examination of the wall showed that it was made of Adamant, an incredibly rare and durable metal. The metal seemed to have crystallized around the point where the crack had formed, and become brittle enough to be broken off; shards of this crystallized adamant lay on the floor of the tunnel, underneath the crack in the wall. What lay beyond the crack in the metallic wall was shrouded in darkness and hard to discern; Sam didn't feel anything moving, so an earth elemental was sent through, and they heard it splash about before it climbed back out and reported that there was a glass wall in front, a strange pool of oily liquid within the chamber, and other glass chambers visible beyond the glass wall. After conferring, the party squeezed through, and found themselves in a cylindrical glass tank, around 9 feet tall by 6 feet in diameter, with the bottom three feet filled with the same oily liquid the elemental had been coated in. Outside of the tank there was a large chamber, and along the walls of the chamber were other, similarly shaped and sized tanks, though all of the others had creatures of various shapes and sizes floating in them. Eventually, after much careful examination of their surroundings, Sam etched a hole in the glass, and they popped the pane out and emerged into the chamber. The creatures within the other tanks, on examination, turned out to be a mixture of demons, qlippoth, and proteans - implying that the protean they had faced earlier had likely escaped from the tank they'd emerged from, and made its way into the desert. The tanks were connected to the wall and ceiling by pipes or chords of a bronze metal, which seemed to merge seamlessly with the adamant walls and ceiling. Each tank had a panel of the same bronze metal at its top, marked with strange geometric symbols, which after comparing all of them seemed to be a label of some sort, though the party lacked the magic or scrolls to be able to decipher the language. Exploring further into the chamber, the party got the sense that this room had not been designed for human-sized creatures - the ceiling was twelve feet high, and the door they found as they turned the corner featured a panel set at well above head-height for a human. They also found another escapee - though this one was very definitely dead. A Nyogoth qlippoth, which normally appears as a floating mass of fanged intestines, lay broken on the floor near a broken tank. The creature had been petrified, and had shattered after falling to the ground, scattering pieces of crystalized intestine and teeth across the chamber's floor. A closer examination of the remains found that the creature had perished due to a massive exposure to pure aligned order, naturally inimical to the chaotic energy within it.
See Strange Brews & Chaotic Canyons for the previous entry. After preparing for the underground expedition, the party headed down into the tunnel they'd found at the heart of the chaotic canyons of the Warrens. The tunnel wound back and forth, going for at least five miles, perhaps more. Eventually it ended, narrowing to a crack in what looked like a metal wall. Closer examination of the wall showed that it was made of Adamant, an incredibly rare and durable metal. The metal seemed to have crystallized around the point where the crack had formed, and become brittle enough to be broken off; shards of this crystallized adamant lay on the floor of the tunnel, underneath the crack in the wall. What lay beyond the crack in the metallic wall was shrouded in darkness and hard to discern; Sam didn't feel anything moving, so an earth elemental was sent through, and they heard it splash about before it climbed back out and reported that there was a glass wall in front, a strange pool of oily liquid within the chamber, and other glass chambers visible beyond the glass wall. After conferring, the party squeezed through, and found themselves in a cylindrical glass tank, around 9 feet tall by 6 feet in diameter, with the bottom three feet filled with the same oily liquid the elemental had been coated in. Outside of the tank there was a large chamber, and along the walls of the chamber were other, similarly shaped and sized tanks, though all of the others had creatures of various shapes and sizes floating in them. Eventually, after much careful examination of their surroundings, Sam etched a hole in the glass, and they popped the pane out and emerged into the chamber. The creatures within the other tanks, on examination, turned out to be a mixture of demons, qlippoth, and proteans - implying that the protean they had faced earlier had likely escaped from the tank they'd emerged from, and made its way into the desert. The tanks were connected to the wall and ceiling by pipes or chords of a bronze metal, which seemed to merge seamlessly with the adamant walls and ceiling. Each tank had a panel of the same bronze metal at its top, marked with strange geometric symbols, which after comparing all of them seemed to be a label of some sort, though the party lacked the magic or scrolls to be able to decipher the language. Exploring further into the chamber, the party got the sense that this room had not been designed for human-sized creatures - the ceiling was twelve feet high, and the door they found as they turned the corner featured a panel set at well above head-height for a human. They also found another escapee - though this one was very definitely dead. A Nyogoth qlippoth, which normally appears as a floating mass of fanged intestines, lay broken on the floor near a broken tank. The creature had been petrified, and had shattered after falling to the ground, scattering pieces of crystalized intestine and teeth across the chamber's floor. A closer examination of the remains found that the creature had perished due to a massive exposure to pure aligned order, naturally inimical to the chaotic energy within it.
Report Date
29 Oct 2018
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